Woman is not born: she is made. In the m... by Andrea Dworkin

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Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

- Andrea Dworkin

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Women

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

- Andrea Dworkin

Suffering Fact Being

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

- Andrea Dworkin

Women

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

- Andrea Dworkin

Struggle Violence Freedom Men Women

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

- Andrea Dworkin

Men Women Now

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

- Andrea Dworkin

Seduction

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

- Andrea Dworkin

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